From the Director<\/p>\n
Summer session has arrived! CSSCR is operating on our reduced summer schedule. We are running our in-person drop-in consulting office in Savery Hall 119 from 9AM to 5PM Monday through Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 Our Main Office (Savery 110) and drop-in computer lab (Savery 118) are open from 9AM to 5PM.\u00a0 \u00a0And our two computer classroom labs are open during these times for reservations per usual.<\/p>\n
We are fully in-person but are still providing access to online consulting during the hours from 9AM to 5PM — just send a note describing your problem\/request to CSSCR@uw.edu. And, in addition, this summer we are providing some online service from 5pm-7pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday…just send a note to CSSCR_evening@uw.edu describing your problem and we will set up a consult.<\/p>\n
Summer Quarter we will offer a limited set of in-person workshops (see list below).\u00a0 These workshops are generally of an introductory nature and designed to get you started on a variety of statistical software.\u00a0Registration for the workshops is provided below.<\/p>\n
Hope you also get to enjoy a bit of summer along with your research and course work!<\/p>\n
Best regards,<\/p>\n
Jerry Herting<\/p>\n
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CSSCR Short Workshop Offerings Summer Quarter 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n ***Workshops are listed in the order of the dates they are delivered***<\/p>\n *******************************<\/p>\n Introduction to R using R Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The workshop will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.<\/p>\n ****************************<\/p>\n Data Wrangling in R<\/strong><\/p>\n Description:\u00a0 This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R\/RStudio.<\/p>\n ****************************<\/p>\n Introduction to Qualitative Analysis using ATLAS.ti<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: \u00a0 This workshop provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, covering basic terminology and functionality of the program. This will include importing text documents, coding and annotating documents, and exploring relationships through analysis and query tools. The course assumes no familiarity with Atlas.ti<\/p>\n *******************************<\/p>\n Introduction to R using R Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: This workshop will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The workshop will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.<\/p>\n **************************** Description: \u00a0 This CSSCR workshop introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs and visualization graphs in R.\u00a0 Topics covered will include basic plotting functions (e.g. histograms, scatter plots), production of multi-panel graphs, and various means of exporting graphs to other presentation packages.\u00a0 A basic user level of R \/ RStudio is assumed.<\/p>\n *******************************<\/p>\n Introduction to QGIS<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: \u00a0 This workshop will provide a basic overview of foundational concepts in Geographic Information Systems. Topics include data acquisition and management, geoprocessing tools, and simple cartographic displays. For this brief analysis we will be working exclusively with vector datasets.<\/p>\n *******************************************************************************<\/p>\n If you have questions or problems registering please send a note to CSSCR@uw.edu.<\/p>\n ********************************************************************************************** Also see news regarding data availability for Census 2020 at our website under Data Archive Decennial Census\u00a0http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csscr\/census\/<\/a><\/p>\n *************************<\/p>\n CSSCR maintains the UW membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). All members of the UW community have direct access to ICPSR\u2019s data archive of over 9,900 studies. Please contact us (csscr@uw.edu) if you have questions or need more information about using this resource for accessing data or adding your data to the ICPSR repository. ICPSR new data releases and other news can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n *************************<\/p>\n The Center for Social Science Computation and Research<\/strong>\u00a0(CSSCR) is an interdepartmental computer center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. CSSCR provides facilities and consulting support for computing activity related to teaching and research at the University.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Main office is open\u00a0Monday-Friday 9AM-12PM and 1PM-5PM \u2014 Please send queries to csscr@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n **********************************************************************<\/p>\n Contact Us:<\/strong><\/p>\n Center for Social Science Computation & Research If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, 543-8924 (V\/TDD). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services requesting academic Accommodations, please present the letter to Jerald Herting at CSSCR so we may discuss the necessary classroom accommodations.<\/p>\n University of Washington Terms and Conditions of Use<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Send mail<\/a>\u00a0for questions or comments about this newsletter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Director Summer session has arrived! CSSCR is operating on our reduced summer schedule. We are running our in-person drop-in consulting office in Savery Hall 119 from 9AM to 5PM Monday through Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 Our Main Office (Savery 110) and drop-in computer lab (Savery 118) are open from 9AM to 5PM.\u00a0 \u00a0And our two computer…<\/p>\n\n
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ICPSR access at CSSCR<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Hours of Operation<\/strong><\/h2>\n
CSSCR is an in-person service<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Drop in In-Person Consulting<\/strong> (Savery 119) \u2014 no appointment needed just stop on by!<\/h4>\n
Summer Hours Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM<\/strong><\/h4>\n
If you prefer an online meeting during the above times…simply e-mail csscr@uw.edu\u00a0<\/a> with your question\/problem and we will arrange a Zoom meeting or answer your questions via e-mail.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
NOTE:\u00a0 Summer Evening on-line consulting is available T,W & Th from 5PM-7PM just send a request to csscr_evening@uw.edu.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Main office and other services<\/strong> (Savery 110)<\/h4>\n
We are closed weekends and for all University holidays.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Given summer staff vacations we may experience some periodic changes in our main office hours.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nUniversity of Washington
\n110 Savery Hall
\nBox 353345
\nSeattle, Washington 98195 U.S.A.
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